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δύσαυλος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: dysaulos

Principal Part: δύσαυλος δύσαυλον

Structure: δυσαυλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: αὐλή

Sense

  1. inhospitable

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ φθέγμα καὶ ἀνεμόεν φρόνημα καὶ ἀστυνόμους ὀργὰς ἐδιδάξατο καὶ δυσαύλων πάγων ὑπαίθρεια καὶ δύσομβρα φεύγειν βέλη παντοπόρος: (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, strophe 21)
  • εἰ δὲ σὺ τοιούτοις τότ ἐνέπνεες, οὐκ ἂν Υἅγνις τὴν ἐπὶ Μαιάνδρῳ κλαῦσε δύσαυλον ἔριν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 266 1:1)
  • Δυσαύλου τέ ἐστιν ἐνταῦθα, ὡς εἴρηταί μοι, μνῆμα. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 14 6:2)

Synonyms

  1. inhospitable

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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